"Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return."

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Source : Sara Paretsky (2011). “Deadlock”, p.34, Dell

Sara Paretsky

#Numbers Quotes #Return Quotes #Something Better Quotes

“Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“I don't eat green things, no vegetables.”
“The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.”
“Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.”
“The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to me, insisting I acknowledge its progress and sometimes, for just a moment I feel a flicker of hope before the agony of the night engulfs me again.”
“I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.”
“Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.”

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